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High-profile crime and perceived public safety : evidence from Cologne's new year's eve in 2015
Lange, Martin; Schmidt, Alexander - 2023
This study analyses the impact of a high-profile crime event on perceived public safety. At the 2015 New Year's Eve celebrations in Cologne (NYE), Germany, refugees allegedly committed over a thousand crimes, ranging from theft to sexual assault. The widespread media coverage of these incidents...
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Belonging or estrangement : the European refugee crisis and its effects on immigrant identity
Prömel, Christopher - 2021
This study deals with the impact of the 2015 European Refugee Crisis on the ethnic identity of resident migrants in Germany. To derive plausibly causal estimates, I exploit the quasiexperimental setting in Germany, by which refugees are allocated to different counties by state authorities...
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Language proficiency and homeownership : evidence from U.S. immigrants
Luik, Marc-André; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich; Voss, Simon - 2023
In this paper we deliver first causal evidence on the relationship between immigrant host country language proficiency and homeownership. Using an instrumental variable strategy, we find a substantial positive impact of language skills on the propensity to own a home and the quality of housing....
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Religion and growth
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023
—together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue that … religion can enhance or impinge upon economic growth through all four elements because it shapes individual preferences …, societal norms, and institutions. Religion affects physical capital accumulation by influencing thrift and financial …
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The labor market effects of refugee waves : reconciling conflicting results
Clemens, Michael A.; Hunt, Jennifer - 2017
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A political theory of Russian orthodoxy : evidence from public goods experiments
Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2013
In this paper, I test the effects of religious norms on the provision of public goods. My evidence is drawn from public goods experiments that I ran with regional bureaucrats in Tomsk and Novosibirsk, Russia. I introduce three treatments, which I define as degrees of Eastern Orthodox...
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Can schools change religious attitudes? : evidence from German state reforms of compulsory religious education
Arold, Benjamin W.; Woessmann, Ludger; Zierow, Larissa - 2022
We study whether compulsory religious education in schools affects students’ religiosity as adults. We exploit the staggered termination of compulsory religious education across German states in models with state and cohort fixed effects. Using three different datasets, we find that abolishing...
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Aging, proximity to death, and religiousness
Lechler, Marie; Sunde, Uwe - 2020
importance of religion in individuals' lives. We combine individual survey response data for more than 311,000 individuals from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012237556
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Decomposing discrimination: why a holistic approach to racism hides more than it reveals
Koopmans, Ruud - 2021
as ethnicity and religion. In addition, the "intersectional" interactions between these different characteristics are a … and religion each have independent effects on discrimination. Tendencies towards discrimination differ greatly between … phänotypisches Aussehen als auch Ethnizität und Religion umfasst. Außerdem werden in dieser ganzheitlichen Rassismuskonzeption die …
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Race discrimination in Brazil : an analysis of the age, period and cohort effects
Reis, Maurício Cortez; Crespo, Anna Risi Vianna - 2015
Earnings differential between white and black workers present a decreasing trend for younger cohorts in Brazil. We argue in this paper that the reduction in economic discrimination for younger cohorts could have played an important role on this result. Using the Brazilian National Household...
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